August 27th 2009 cruise on the wonder

[dinotorrid]

Seems a lot are coming from Walt Disney World to the cruise. I'm coming from Disneyland to the cruise.

I went last year for the 4-day cruise so I'm excited to sail my first cruise as a Castaway Club member.

 

[Finkelly]

We just got back from the 4 day Wonder on February 7th. We received a bounceback incentive to book a 3 night cruise for $99 pp. I don't want to miss that opportunity so we are going to book this cruise. Unfortunately, I can't use the certificate until April 6th. I can't wait.

I am going to surprise my husband and kids. It is our 15th wedding anniversary in November. I would have loved to go then, but I don't want to pull DD out of middle school for too many days. I hear its very difficult once you hit those grades. We will already be taking her out for a week in february for our annual WDW trip. That is enough. So we will just celebrate a little early in September and have a great weekend before the school year starts.

I am nervous about the 3 night like some of you. Especially since we just did the 4 night and did have time to do as much as we wanted. But now maybe we can skip some things this time to do other things we missed. So that will be great.

The last cruise we just came home from was my one and only disney cruise. The only other cruise I was on was a Carnival from 15 years ago. I don't remember anything from that one, except being seasick.

I will give you any information I learned from that cruise and my other fellow cruise mates. I learned so much from them on the disboard cruise meet chat before we even left. Then as we get closer, I'm sure more will join and hopefully some more experienced cruisers.

One tip I would give right now is to always have a notebook handy. I thought I would remember all they told me or that I could just "look back" at the posts. Our thread is currently 58 pages. I took forever to try to find something that I forgot. Sometimes I just gave up.

Good Luck with everything and I can't wait to chat some more.

 

[Tinkerchele]

We just got back yesterday from a 4 day on the Wonder and also got the $99 pp offer and we really can't pass that up! DH and I went on this cruise alone for our anniversary and had a great time and now we are going to take the kids - my son's 15th birthday is August 28 so this will be a great present!

 

[MainStMandy]

Hello!! We are thinking about booking this cruise for my mom's birthday this year, just the 2 of us!! Hope to join you, it will be her first cruise!

 

[Marcieh41]

My family and I are taking the 3 night cruise. I was hoping to get to know some people before our trip. We will be spending 4 days at WDW before the cruise and 1 day when we return.
I have been planning this trip for over a year now and can't wait for it to get here.
This is my families first time to WDW and on a Cruise - I am hoping they will enjoy it.

 

[Finkelly]

Silly me, I thought this was the Labor Day cruise. that is the one we are going on. Its late this year! I will join the Sept 3rd cruiseline thread. Have a great time everyone!

 

[dinotorrid]

My family and I are taking the 3 night cruise. I was hoping to get to know some people before our trip. We will be spending 4 days at WDW before the cruise and 1 day when we return.
I have been planning this trip for over a year now and can't wait for it to get here.
This is my families first time to WDW and on a Cruise - I am hoping they will enjoy it.

Nice to meet you! I'm going with my family to Disneyland in California then flying by myself to meet a friend and will be jumping aboard the Disney Cruise Line, then off to Walt Disney World! I'm fortunate enough to do 3 in 1 . (A year worth of savings and two part-time jobs makes this happen lol).

I can assure you that they will enjoy WDW & Cruise. There's so much to do.

 

[Marcieh41]

That sounds like soooo much fun, we go to Disneyland at least 2 times a year if not more (annual passholders & DVC members) my first trip to WDW after only gong to Disneyland was so much fun, we were guilty of comparing the two parks most of the time tho. With you going to each park so close together you will really get a feel of the similaraties and differences.

 

[dinotorrid]

They're both unique. You can't go to the Magic Kingdom and say you've done the original. You'll see differences right away as the castle is much higher, but the Magic Kingdom layout is similar to Disneyland so you'll also know how to get to Space Mountain for instance without a map.

 

[DMMarla07860]

my dad and I might be joining you all on this cruise I will be talking with him soon about if we are going. We went on a back-to-back cruise on the disney magic February 21st-March 7th, 2009, so got two things for a 99 dollar cruise, so we booked this one and one for December, the December one we are deff going on, but this one we might go on, it would be my dad's birthday, but I want to go on the Magic March 6th, 2010 for my birthday so we will have to decided if we are doing this one

 

[BevS97]

Sounds like there are going to be a few of us cruising, Is there any interest in doing any swaps? I am intrigued by the fish extender idea.

 

[DMMarla07860]

hope everyone is doing alright

 

[the little marla]

hey all! i am super new to disboards! BF and I will be going on our first cruise with the wonder!!! i'm so excited, iv heard about the fish extenders and they seem so cool! i'd love to do them! we need more people on the board!

 

[Wachsdds]

We signed up today for this August's cruise. This actually will be our 8th DCL cruise. We love disney and DCL can you tell. They just do it so well. Last February on a 7 night Eastern, we felt guilty putting our princess, at that time she was 1 1/2, into daycare for the evening while the rest of the family enjoyed a dinner without flying food at my 6 year old. When we arrived to pick her up from the nursery at 10:30, we found her sitting on Cinderella's dress holding her princess purse on her arm and chatting up a storm with Cinderella. Cinderella turned to us and said that they were having a wonderful conversation that she had know idea what is was about especially since my daughter couldn't talk yet! The moment was truely Disney Magical.

This trip I will be travelling with DW, DS9, DS7, DS4, and Disney Princess2.

I know it seems to be a long way away, but it really is right around the corner before you know it. Has anyone started packing!!!!

 

[DMMarla07860]

Hey hope everyone is doing well, I'm getting excited since my dad and I are deff going to do this cruise, it was a maybe before now it is a deff

 

[gasperdam]

Hello to all!!!! My group of 8 would like to join all of you on this thread. It will be me, my DH, my DM, my DStepD, DS(9),DS(7),DD(4) and DS(2) on the cruise. We have done many trips to the World but this is our first Disney cruise!!! We are SO excited!!!!!!

 

[gasperdam]

This trip I will be travelling with DW, DS9, DS7, DS4, and Disney Princess2.

I know it seems to be a long way away, but it really is right around the corner before you know it. Has anyone started packing!!!!

I just noticed that your kids are all the same ages as mine!!! It's often hard to find other families traveling with 4 - funny that they are the same ages! Maybe we'll bump into each other at the Oceaneers Lab/ Club. Since you have done so many cruises, maybe you can give us advice on what kid's activities are good.

I've thought about putting our DS2 in the daycare so DH and I can go to Palo, but I feel bad too! And I totally hear you on the food throwing- we have so much of that in our house from our youngest too!!!

 

[Belle2007]

We will be joining you on the 27th too!!! This is our second Disney cruise. We cruised to St Croix in February and received the bounceback offer.... really couldn't pass that up! I knew immediately that we would be coming back.

 

[DMMarla07860]

We will be joining you on the 27th too!!! This is our second Disney cruise. We cruised to St Croix in February and received the bounceback offer.... really couldn't pass that up! I knew immediately that we would be coming back.

welcome aboard, what week did you go in February to St. Croix? I went on a St. Croix cruise as well so just wondering when you went.

 

[Belle2007]

welcome aboard, what week did you go in February to St. Croix? I went on a St. Croix cruise as well so just wondering when you went.

We were on the February 28th cruise. DH really enjoyed St Croix. He loved their beach... we also did the Rum tour, which I wasn't really crazy about! What about you?